March 21 2024

Performances by the Shanghai Theatre Academy and talk event featuring playwright YOKOYAMA Takuya and director LI Minyuan will be held in China, based on the Chinese-language version of Yokoyama’s play Carcass, which was published by the Japan Foundation as part of its efforts to translate and publish Japanese theatrical plays.

The Japan Foundation is publishing translations of theatrical works by five promising Japanese playwrights (ICHIHARA Satoko, KUWABARA Yuko, MAEKAWA Tomohiro, MAEDA Shiro, and Yokoyama Takuya) in collaboration with publishing houses outside of Japan. The works are being translated and published in five languages: English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic. Now, applying the text translated into Chinese within this program, gifted theater students in Shanghai will take on the challenge of staging Yokoyama’s magnum opus Carcass, which has been continually presented since it premiered in 2009.

The performances and talk event will explore the imaginations and values of the playwright and those who are involved in the project and seek to further expand cultural exchange through the potential of theater.

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  Carcass
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  YOKOYAMA Takuya
  

Related Materials

• ［Announcement］Translation and Publication of Theatrical Plays:
  Chinese Performances of Carcass by YOKOYAMA Takuya to Be Held Along with Talk Events (PDF: 470KB)

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